The American Experience: TRIANGLE FIRE episode shows us exactly where the corporations that recently bought the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. House of Representatives, the government of Wisconsin, etc., etc. not only have yearned for years to return to, but to which they've now taken us 80 percent of the way (since only 20 percent of American non-millionaires are unionized, with the game plan being to only allow millionaires such as professional sports stars to retain the universal human right of unionization as defined by the United Nations: civilization regards de-unionization on par with a return to human slavery).
The women who worked in 1911 in the aptly-named Ash Building in New York City's Greenwich Village were thwarted in their earlier strike efforts by the local police, just as Wisconsin state troopers evicted the women teachers from the Wisconsin state Capitol building that their own tax dollars helped to erect in the wee hours of this morning, in an effort to thwart their right to strike ever again.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the U.S. House of Representatives is reviewing all the legal regulatory progress ordinary Americans have made in the past 100 years--largely because of corporate crimes such as the 150 women turned into human torches in the Ash Building, which was the catalyst for laws against unpaid overtime (i.e., human slavery, which USA Today letters to the editor writer Terry McKenna of Ocean City, NJ demands from all public employees in today's newspaper), child labor, unsafe working environments, a-nickel-an-hour wage scales, etc. America's top 1% only owns one third of everything now, with the next 9% owning another third, and the ordinary 90% of us fighting over the final third despite our existing set of so-called "rights" and "protections."
Any viewer of TRIANGLE FIRE will soon conclude that once the final remnants of our Declaration-of-Independence rights are removed by the puppets doing the bidding of corporate lawyers, the entire country will become one big Ash Building, with millions of us plunging to our doom not unlike flaming marshmallows toasted too close for the fires of corporate greed.
The women who worked in 1911 in the aptly-named Ash Building in New York City's Greenwich Village were thwarted in their earlier strike efforts by the local police, just as Wisconsin state troopers evicted the women teachers from the Wisconsin state Capitol building that their own tax dollars helped to erect in the wee hours of this morning, in an effort to thwart their right to strike ever again.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the U.S. House of Representatives is reviewing all the legal regulatory progress ordinary Americans have made in the past 100 years--largely because of corporate crimes such as the 150 women turned into human torches in the Ash Building, which was the catalyst for laws against unpaid overtime (i.e., human slavery, which USA Today letters to the editor writer Terry McKenna of Ocean City, NJ demands from all public employees in today's newspaper), child labor, unsafe working environments, a-nickel-an-hour wage scales, etc. America's top 1% only owns one third of everything now, with the next 9% owning another third, and the ordinary 90% of us fighting over the final third despite our existing set of so-called "rights" and "protections."
Any viewer of TRIANGLE FIRE will soon conclude that once the final remnants of our Declaration-of-Independence rights are removed by the puppets doing the bidding of corporate lawyers, the entire country will become one big Ash Building, with millions of us plunging to our doom not unlike flaming marshmallows toasted too close for the fires of corporate greed.
